Provenance

• Before 1928: owned by Hubert Maitland Budgett (1882-1951) , Master of Hounds, Kirtlington Park, Oxford;
• 1928: sold at auction, Sotheby's, London, 27 November 1928 (lot 303), bought by Colnaghi's, London art dealers;
• 1928: Kennedy, New York dealers, took half shares on 1 December 1928;
• 1929: sold on 18 January 1929 to Charles Sessler (1854-1935) , Philadelphia;
• 1929: bought on 28 March 1929 by Lessing Julius Rosenwald (1891-1971) ;
• 1943: given to the National Gallery of Art, Washington DC;
• 1980: transferred from Alverthorpe to the National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC.

Exhibitions

Not known to have been exhibited in Whistler's lifetime.